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Africa: Central
Ugandan rebels kill 60, church officials say
2003-11-09
More than 60 people have been killed in northern Uganda this week by suspected Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, Roman Catholic Church officials have said. "Thirty people were killed in the villages of Awayapiny and Alanyi, 20 in Omarari and nine more at Omoro North Primary School - all in Abako sub-county," in north Uganda's Lira district Thursday night, Catholic missionary Father Sabbat Ayele said. Father Ayele quoted witnesses as saying that the rebels beheaded some of the people while a number of grass-thatched huts were also torched. He said that one person was also killed at a Adweki trading centre on the road leading to Soroti from Lira. "I talked to a woman by the name of Consolata Atim, one of those people beaten up by the rebels, who told me that she witnessed people being beheaded," said Father Ayele, an Eritrean Comboni missionary. Lira's army spokesman Lieutenant Chris Magezi said the army was yet to compile the total number of those killed, but added that three other people, including a police officer, were killed on Friday night in another attack on a displaced people's camp at Agwata in Dokolo county.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  Why would you call yourself the Lord's Resistance Army if your plan is to go around beheading villagers. A missionary that has spent the last 20 years or so in Uganda spoke at our church 2 years ago. Don't know how you could psychologically survive in that country under those conditions for that period.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-11-9 2:01:05 PM  

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